“Child, child, do you not see? For each of us comes a time when we must be more than what we are.””
The Black Cauldron
Quotes by Alexander Black
“Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.””
The Black Cauldron
“In the era of colorblindness, it is no longer socially permissible to use race, explicitly, as a justification for discrimination, exclusion, and social contempt. So we don’t. Rather than rely on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color “criminals” and then engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind. Today it is perfectly legal to discriminate against criminals in nearly all the ways that it was once legal to discriminate against African Americans. Once you’re labeled a felon, the old forms of discrimination”
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“When we think of racism we think of Governor Wallace of Alabama blocking the schoolhouse door; we think of water hoses, lynchings, racial epithets, and "whites only" signs. These images make it easy to forget that many wonderful, goodhearted white people who were generous to others, respectful of their neighbors, and even kind to their black maids, gardeners, or shoe shiners--and wished them well--nevertheless went to the polls and voted for racial segregation... Our understanding of racism is therefore shaped by the most extreme expressions of individual bigotry, not by the way in which it functions naturally, almost invisibly (and sometimes with genuinely benign intent), when it is embedded in the structure of a social system.””
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
“Morgant?" Taran asked, turning a puzzled glance to Gwydion. "How can there be honor for such a man?" "It is easy to judge evil unmixed," replied Gwydion. "But, alas, in most of us good and bad are closely woven as the threads on a loom; greater wisdom than mine is needed for the judging.””
The Black Cauldron
Alexander Black
Alexander Black was an American author and photographer known for his insightful explorations of American culture and the evolving role of women in society during the late 19th and early 20th centurie...